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VOLUME 8 • ISSUE 26
11512 N. 2nd ST. • MACHESNEY PARK, IL 61115
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018
Burger King to open this fall in Harvard
The City of Harvard is pleased to formally announce that Burger King will open at 301 S. Division Street. The Franchisee, Statny Foods, Inc, contacted the City of Harvard in the Fall of 2017 in pursuit of the property located at the corner of IL 173/ Brink Street, and US Rt. 14/Division Street. The City has been networking with the Franchisee until they were able to secure the property. The company closed on the property a couple of weeks ago and submitted their application for building permits last week. Statny Foods owns three other Burger King Restaurants located in Carpentersville, Elgin, and Sycamore. They look forward to coming to the City of Harvard and serving our community. The building for the Harvard Burger King will be renovated to conform to Burger King elevation standards. Barring any unforeseen issues, the restaurant anticipates an early October Grand Opening. The store will be hiring 40-50 employees, which will be a mixture of part time and full time employees. Applicants for manager positions can start applying within a few days. A sign will be posted on the property for application information. The company will start accepting applications for regular employees near SUBMITTED PHOTO McHenry County News The building for the Harvard Burger King will be renovated to conform to Burger King elevation standards as shown in this rendering. the end of July.
More than 50 defendants charged in joint federal, state narcotics investigation centered on west side of Chicago More than 50 individuals, including an alleged Mexico-based drug trafficker and a Wisconsin-based courier, are facing criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl sales in Chicago. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Full Circle,” centered on drug sales on the city’s West Side, and resulted in the seizure of more than two kilograms of heroin, a kilogram of fentanyl, and 300 pounds of marijuana. Authorities also seized 17 illegal firearms, including three rifles, and approximately $8,000 in narcotics proceeds. One of the defendants offered to kidnap a man who allegedly owed a debt to Mexico-based narcotics traffickers in exchange for cash and drugs. The defendant was arrested and a search of his vehicle revealed two firearms, steel chains and duct tape. Two other defendants engaged in a handgun-for-
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heroin transaction in December of last year, according to the federal charges. The probe was conducted under the umbrella of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), in cooperation with the Chicago High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force (HIDTA). OCDETF is a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, whose principal mission is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking organizations. Criminal complaints and affidavits filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago charge seven defendants with various drug offenses, and two defendants with firearm offenses. Several of the federal defendants were arrested Tuesday. Detention hearings for some of the federal defendants will be held on June 22, 2018, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel G. Martin. Forty-eight other defendants were
charged in state complaints, and many of them were also arrested Tuesday. They have begun making initial appearances in Cook County Criminal Court. The charges were announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Brian McKnight, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Celinez Nunez, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Nicholas Roti, Director of HIDTA; Kimberly M. Foxx, Cook County State’s Attorney; Eddie Johnson, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department; and Gabriel L. Grchan, Special Agent-in-Charge of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division in Chicago. Substantial assistance was provided by HIDTA DEA Group 43, the U.S. Marshals Service,
and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Chicago. Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Mitchell and Grayson Walker are representing the government. According to the federal complaints, Krzysztof Rak, 60, operates a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, and works with Christopher J. Doss, 47, of Racine, Wisc., to distribute wholesale quantities of fentanyl to customers in the Chicago area. Donald Holmes, Sr., 56, of Chicago, and Ivan Walton, 45, of Lynwood, participated in the organization by regularly distributing Rak’s narcotics in the Chicago area and collecting payment from customers, according to the charges. The federal complaints describe a meeting earlier this year between Doss and Walton in a restaurant parking lot in south suburban Matteson. During the meeting, Doss supplied Walton with more than 880 grams of fentanyl, the charges allege. Law enforcement conducted surveil-
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lance of the transaction after securing court authorization to wiretap certain telephones. In another narcotics transaction described in the federal complaints, Nakia Mcclinic, 43, of Chicago, attempted to deliver heroin and fentanyl to an individual who had received the drug order from Deshawn Moore, 24, of Bellwood. Law enforcement was watching when McClinic arrived at the meeting in a parking lot near the University of Illinois at Chicago, the complaints state. Officers attempted to pull over McClinic’s vehicle but he sped off, tossing the drugs out of the driver’s side window, the charges allege. McClinic’s vehicle was successfully stopped a short while later, and the narcotics were recovered nearby. The kidnapping plot involved Tekoa Q. Tinch, 30, of Bloomington, Ill., who allegedly agreed to carry out the kidnapping in exchange for drugs and a split of any money recovered from the victim. Last month, Tinch met with an undercover law enforcement officer, who was posing as a representative of the Mexico-based group, in a grocery store parking lot in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, the complaints state. During the meeting, Tinch accepted a sham kilogram of cocaine as a purported down payment on the kidnapping, the complaints state. Tinch was then arrested and his car was searched, revealing the guns, duct tape and chains, the charges allege. The public is reminded that a complaint contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If convicted, the Court must impose reasonable sentences under federal sentencing statutes and the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines.